Selected Publications
McAuliffe, K., Bangayan, S., Callaghan, T., Corbit, J., Dixson, H. G. W., Dunham, Y., Finkel, A., Otali, E., Riddick, S., Tusiime, P., & Warneken, F. (2025). Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing. Communications Psychology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00220-x
McAuliffe, K (in press). Children across societies punish unfairness. Springer Nature. https://communities.springernature.com/posts/children-across-societies-punish-unfairness
Probst, S., & Warneken, F. (2025). Children’s socio-moral reasoning about vaccine-like behaviors. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053251314684
Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K. (2025). Lessons for the next pandemic: What children taught us about navigating new social norms during COVID-19. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214241306057
Myslinska-Szarek, K., & Warneken, F. (2024). What do children value more in a collaborator—Problem-solving capacity or fair sharing? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 249, 106070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106070
Marshall, J., Lee, Y. E., Deutchman, P., Wang, Z., Horsey, C. D., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K. (2023). When not helping is nice: Children’s changing evaluations of helping during COVID-19. Developmental Psychology, 59(5), 953
Gollwitzer, A., Marshall, J., Lee, Y., Deutchman, P., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K. (2024). Parent and community political orientation predicts children’s health behaviors. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Corbit, J., McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., & Warneken, F. (2023). The influence of friendship on children’s fairness concerns in three societies. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Amir, D., Melnikoff, D., Warneken, F., Blake, P. R., Corbit, J., Callaghan, T. C., Barry, O., Bowie, A., Kleutsch, L., Kramer, K. L., Ross, E., Vongsachang, H., Wrangham, R., & McAuliffe, K. (2023). Computational Signatures of Inequity Aversion in Children Across Seven Societies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Probst, S., Nowak, A., & Warneken, F. (2023). Children’s moral reasoning about self- versus other-benefiting public health measures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Grueneisen, S., Leimgruber, K. L., Vogt, R. L., & Warneken, F. (2023). Prospection and delay of gratification support the development of calculated reciprocity. Cognition.
Umscheid, V.A., Smith, C. E., Warneken, F., Gelman, S. A., & Wellman, H.M. (2023). What makes Voldemort tick? Children’s and adults’ reasoning about the nature of villains. Cognition.
Lee, Y., Marshall, J., Deutchman, P., McAuliffe, K. & Warneken, F. (2022). Children’s judgments of interventions against norm violations: COVID-19 as a naturalistic study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2022). Does third-party punishment in children aim at equality? Developmental Psychology.
Grueneisen, S. & Warneken, F. (2022). The development of prosocial behavior – from sympathy to strategy. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2020). Children’s evaluations of third-party responses to unfairness: Children prefer helping over punishment. Cognition.
McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., & Warneken, F. (2020). Costly fairness in children is influenced by who is watching. Developmental Psychology.
Warneken, F. (2018). How children solve the two challenges of cooperation. Annual Review of Psychology.
McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., Steinbeis, N., & Warneken, F. (2017). The developmental foundations of human fairness. Nature Human Behaviour.
Warneken, F. (2016). Insights into the biological foundation of human altruistic sentiments. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Blake, P. R., McAuliffe, K., Callaghan, T., Corbit, J., Barry, O., Bowie, A., Greaves, R., Kleutsch, L., Kramer, K., Ross, E., Vongsachang, H., Wrangham, R., & Warneken, F. (2015). The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies. Nature.
McAuliffe, K., Jordan, J., & Warneken, F. (2015). Costly third-party punishment in young children. Cognition.
Warneken, F. (2015). Precocious prosociality – why do young children help? Child Development Perspectives.
Jordan, J., McAuliffe, K., & Warneken, F. (2014). Development of in-group favoritism in children’s third-party punishment of selfishness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzees. Science